• 3300 m2 of laboratories and industrial workshops.
• 70 full-time personnel, already working on the R&D themes mentioned.
• An annual volume of activity of € 5,5 million
• 80 %: R&D,• An investment budget of € 2 million (financed over 3 years) by the partners with regional and European financial aid – European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
• 15%: Consultancy, diagnosis and services,
• 5%: Training.
• Surface Treatment Pilots through water means: laboratory size press, vacuum curtain, coating colour deaerator, cooling roll
• Thermomechanical surface treatment: water box, vapour box , infra red radiant
• Dry treatment pilot: chromatogeny pilot, on-line plasma
• Industrial printing pilots: rotogravure group, serigraphy pilot, flexiproof pilot, digital press
• Paper characterisation apparatus, coating items, fibres: bubble maximal pressure, permeability to favour cell
• Devices for understanding phenomena: high speed ink-jet pilot, microdrop
• Paper and ink characterisation devices: rheometer, exclusion chromatography, fluorescence optical microscopy
